Christopher Collstedt Professor, Deputy Head of Department
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Name and title: Christopher CollstedtProfessor, Deputy Head of Department
Workplace: Department of Criminology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Universitetsvägen 10 C, plan 6
Postal address Kriminologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Professor of Criminology and Associate Professor of History
I earned my PhD in 2007 at the Department of History, Lund University, and in 2013 I became an associate professor at the same institution. During several semesters (2013 and 2017), I was a visiting researcher at the Department of Criminology, Stockholm University. In permanent positions, I have previously worked as a senior lecturer in Human Rights at Lund University (2014–2016), as a lecturer in History with a focus on gender and interculturality at Södertörn University (2018–2020), and as a professor of History at Södertörn University (2020–2024).
I have been teaching since 2006 and have extensive teaching experience in history, human rights, and criminology at the undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels. My current teaching at the Department of Criminology includes:
- Theoretical Perspectives (Criminology II)
- Victimology (Criminology II)
- Supervision of Bachelor´s and Master’s Theses
My research is strongly interdisciplinary. Over the past fifteen years, my work has primarily been situated at the intersection of intellectual and cultural history, criminology/victimology, and gender studies. Through detailed analyses of legislation, criminal policy, and legal practice; forensic, psychiatric, and psychological discourses; as well as media representations and literary narratives, I have examined issues concerning:
- Violence, honour, and masculinity
- Men as victims of crime
- The health, suffering, and rights of crime victims
- War crimes and humanitarianism
Methodologically, my research has frequently drawn on a genealogical approach to history in a Foucauldian sense, with the aim of developing what may be termed “histories of the present.” This approach is combined with cultural and discourse‑analytical perspectives, as well as poststructuralist theories of masculinity and intersectionality.
In recent years, I have developed an increasing interest in questions of temporality—specifically, the ways in which understandings, representations, and enactments of time are articulated in discourses and narratives concerning crime and victimisation. My work has explored these issues through analytical concepts such as memory, trauma, and hauntology
Selected Publications
I am the author of multiple monographs and articles:
Duellanternas död. Den tidigmoderna hederskulturens fall i Sverige ca 1770–1920 (kommande hösten 2026)
Urkatastrofen förkroppsligad. Krigsfångarna och den moderna humanitarismens genombrott i Sverige 1914-1921, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2023
Våldets djupa spår. Talet om våldsoffers hälsa och liv i det senmoderna Sverige Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2021
"Towards a Biopolitics of the Victimized Body. Creating Assault as a Crime Against Health and Life c. 1945-1965" in Scandinavian Journal of History, 2020
I begynnelsen var dådet. Talet och tystnaderna om våld mellan män från 1700-tal till tidigt 1900-tal, Göteborg: Daidalos förlag, 2015
Våldets väsen. Synen på militärers våld mot civilbefolkning i 1600-talets Sverige, Lund: Sekel förlag, 2012
Duellanten och rättvisan Duellbrott och synen på manlighet i stormaktstidens slutskede (Diss.), Lund: Sekel förlag, 2007